Car Crash Snaps City Girl's Leg
A two car collision in the 1100 block Pennsylvania Friday night injured seven year old Lawton girl Margaret Foster and a passenger in the other vehicle. Margaret was treated at Memorial hospital for a broken leg while the other driver Herman Chappell 17 of 1810 Lee was turning into a driveway at 1111 Pennsylvania. Also injured in a separate country road accident north of Walters was Billy Jeff Weldon 15 who suffered a fractured pelvis and a compound fracture of the left leg after being struck by a car driven by Gerald Hayes while riding on the front fender. He was taken to Southwestern hospital.
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Pennsylvania
Lawton
Memorial Hospital
Margaret Foster
McKinley
Herman Chappell
Lee
Chappell
Marland Lee Woolbright
Douglas
Highway Patrol
Norman Carroll
Walters
Billy Jeff Weldon
Southwestern Hospital
Carroll
John Duke
Gerald Hayes
Reading Methods and Lab Work Highlight Reading Growth
The article discusses reading instruction shifts toward word recognition over phonics, stressing reading for meaning. Miss Smitherman explains two oral reading purposes, the need for a sight vocabulary, and phonetic analysis. She notes age readiness at around mental age 6 to 7, and praises Lawton schools for their reading standards.
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United States
Miss Smitherman
Lawton
Southwest
Slayings Shock Quiet Parishppi Neighborhood
Neighbors described Bauer as a respected church trustee and devoted father who donated ten percent of his income. The discovery came when Arthur Sinnenberg found multiple bodies in the Bauer home after checking on the house. The Bauers had moved to the quiet Parsippany estate neighborhood in June 1952 after living with Mrs Bauer's parents and earlier in Scotia, New York.
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Parsippany Methodist Church
Arthur Sinnenberg
Bauer and Nuber Autos
Sinnenberg
Bauers
Passing Out Cigars for New News Paperman
Bill Ewald telegraph editor of The Constitution celebrated a birth at Memorial hospital. The couple welcomed their first child, a son, born at 3 30 p m. Mother and infant were reported doing nicely.
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Bill Ewald
Telegraph
the Constitution
Mrs. Ewald
Memorial Hospital
Violence and vice report rocks Lawton Negro districts
Citizens describe increased gambling prostitution and dope activity in East Side and adjacent areas. Residents call for stronger patrols curfews better lighting and closer enforcement while youth facilities and community cleanup are urged to curb rising violence and gun use.
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Death Valley
Ralph Hennessee
Lawton Industrial Drive Seeks $100,000 Stock Goal
Joe Cummings says more workers will be hired as construction proceeds. Lawtonians funded the project by buying stock in Greater Lawton, Inc., with $1,500 reported at Saturday's meeting. Mayor Ellsworth says the campaign is not finished and aims to reach the $100,000 goal, amid ongoing clean-up calls by the committee led by Tom Stapleton and including Dr. Jack Spencer and others. Another report meeting is set for Friday in the mayor’s office.
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Joe Cummings
Lawtonians
Greater Lawton, Inc
C. R. Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Lawton Industrial Developers Committee
Tom Stapleton
Jack Spencer
Lloyd Bendure
Bill Peters
B. K. Fowler
John Erwin
R. M. Dodson
Henry F. Howell
Earl Botkin
Billy Paul Galyon
Jack Raulston
David Sprague
E. J. Leverett
Eisenhower replies to Bulganin note on cooperation pact
President Eisenhower responds to Bulganin push for a friendship and cooperation treaty by outlining U N Charter commitments and noting failures at Geneva and the Oct Nov talks. He cites Soviet blocks on German unification and Open Skies and warns of rising world tensions from Soviet actions in South Asia the Middle East and arms sales to Egypt.
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Russia
Dulles
White House
Charles Bohlen
Moscow
Bohlen
Andrei Gromyko
Eisenhower
Georgi N. Zarubin
United States
Britain
Anthony Eden
Bulgarin
United Nations
UN Charter
U.N
Geneva
South Asia
Middle East
Egypt
Farm bill to reach Senate floor around February seven
Farm leaders push for the bill to clear the Senate around Feb seven with farmers’ plight a focus. A Lincoln Day period slows action as Republicans deliver speeches. The plan includes a soil bank payment for idle acreage, with Democrats claiming administration borrowed the idea from them. Some Republicans back administration arguments on price supports and surpluses, while others favor restoring high supports.
Judge Forfeits Bonds For Eight In Municipal Court Sat
Eight cases were settled in Municipal court Saturday afternoon without a single defendant present. Bonds were forfeited by order of Judge J. Merle Oaks. Defendants and charges include Thomas B. Sanders for liquor possession, David Ewell for assault, Edward L. Bonardi for interfering with an officer, MSgt. Ralph A. Little for reckless driving, Herman Chappell for no driver license, and Marland Lee Woolbright and Kenneth Ray Cambron for reckless driving, with bond amounts listed.
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J. Merle Oaks
Thomas B. Sanders
Fort Sill
David Ewell
Edward L. Bonardi
Ralph A. Little
Lake
Herman Chappell
Lee
Marland Lee Woolbright
Douglas
Kenneth Ray Cambron
Benson Scandal Sparks Senate Storm Over Letter
Senators Case Fulbright Humphrey George and Young condemned Benson for a controversial letter and article. McMillen said he drafted a letter for Shurtleff to sign. Benson’s secretary Mrs Slagsvold typed it but did not read the piece. Humphrey urged firing, while Fulbright and George questioned Benson’s usefulness and influence.
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Benson
Humphrey
Fulbright
Sill Man Hurt In Texas Crash Near Bowie
A Fort Sill man was hospitalized and another jailed after a Saturday crash two miles west of Bowie Texas. Elmo Gene Spann the injured passenger in a 1955 Ford pickup driven by Johnnie L. Vannatter was hospitalized for non serious injuries. Vannatter held in county jail for investigation. Details scarce. A second collision eight miles west of Lawton on US 62 involved Lewelyn Atavich and a stalled 1948 Kaiser owned by J R Rogers, no injuries reported.
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Lawton
Lewelyn Atavich
Cache Rt. 1
J. R. Rogers
Marlow
Norman Carroll
John Duke
Burglars Take Money and Auto Parts At Local Stations
Burglars broke a window at Mac's Service Station on Second and Lee early Saturday and stole 43.70 from a money sack in the office. James Blonigen reported the break in and that assailants attempted entry through a restroom ceiling. A white sidewall tire and wheel were taken from a 1953 Pontiac at Ninth and Lee. A stolen car found at Ninth and Lee belonged to David P. Delorme, with an overcoat and gloves missing from the interior. Arthur Pryor reported two hub caps a fender skirt and a cigarette lighter removed from his car parked near the Caravan club on S. 28th.
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Second
Lee
James Blonigen
Blomigen
Tom Glasgow
Bell
Ninth and Lee
Chicken Shack Drive-Inn
New York
David P. Delorme
Arthur Pryor
Fort Sill
Caravan Club
Polio fund drive teems with volunteers in Lawton area
At year end 1955 the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis funded care for 68 000 polio patients through March of Dimes. Five vice chairmen assist the drive including Mrs. Parsons Webb Carter Morgan and Crawford. Lawton women across districts gather Tuesday night for contributions in residential sections led by Mrs. Lansden and Mrs. Lansden notes this is the only collection time in residential areas.
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National Foundation For
Brubaker
National Foundation
O. L. Parsons
Jack Webb
Jack Carter
Buford Morgan
Frank Crawford
Tom ‘Lansden
Comanche County
Lawton
R. A. Burt
Roosevelt
Bob Morford
Swinney
Carless Tubbs
Taft
Darold Engslish
Washington
Dillard Irbye Whittier
Arthur Rinker
Lincoln
Lansden
Sill Man Chosen For Opera Finals
Eleven singers were selected in Tulsa to compete in tomorrow's regional Metropolitan Opera auditions finals. Three winners may advance to New York for a Met tryout, with finalists including Emogene Gunter Hot Springs Ark David F. Dodds Wichita Kan Mrs Janis Broadhurst Wichita Gloria Lane Kansas City Kan Jacquelin Norwood St Louis John A Wiles Jr El Reno Lt Cecil W Holly Jr Ft Sill Janet Huddart Shawnee Robert H Downs Robert J Williams James M Palmesino Kansas City Mo.
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Tulsa
Okla
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Met
Emogene Gunter
Hot Springs
Ark
David F. Dodds
Wichita
Kan
Janis Broadhurst
Gloria Lane
Kansas City
Jacquelin Norwood
St. Louis
John A. Wiles Jr
el Reno
Cecil W. Holly Jr
Ft. Sill
Janet Huddart
Shawnee
Robert H. Downs
Robert J. Williams
James M. Palmesino
Kansas City, Mo
Stateless woman faces deportation over treason charge
Rose, an American citizen by birth, awaits a deportation hearing after wartime internment. Granted time off for good behavior and permission to travel to Chicago, she was served a deportation warrant as a stateless person. In San Francisco years ago she was tried for treason, declaring she remains innocent though past wounds linger.
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Chicago
D’aquino
Tokyo
Felipe d’Aquino
Portugal
Japan
Immigration Service
San Francisco
Local committee leaders and business owners named
The airport street lighting and building repair committee is chaired by Kirkpatrick who also leads the police traffic and sanitation committee and serves on the fish and game and parks cemetery library groups. Pair chairs the fish and game panel and sits on street and alley and air port committees. Kinsey heads the street and alley panel and joins finance and claims and parks cemetery library groups. Kirkpatrick, ex school board member and Comanche county native, runs a floral shop. McKenzie operates an auto garage while Pair owns a south Lawton grocery.
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Pair
Kinsey
Comanche County
McKenzie
South Lawton
Mississippi Population Declines 2.4 Percent
Mississippi saw a 2.4 percent drop in its population from April 1, 1950 to July 1, 1954, reflecting demographic shifts in the state during the period.
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Mississippi
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